{"id":606947,"date":"2026-04-26T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:47:08","slug":"illinois-legend-ayo-dosunmu-stars-in-historic-playoff-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606947\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois legend Ayo Dosunmu stars in historic playoff performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">It\u2019s nothing we didn\u2019t already know, but Illinois legend Ayo Dosunmu is a STAR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dosunmu authored one of the great postseason performances in recent NBA history on Saturday night as his Timberwolves took a 3-1 lead over <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5352\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nikola Jokic;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nikola Jokic&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> and the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We\u2019ve posted a ton of clips on our social media pages, so make sure to check that out to see Ayo star \u2014 and even one shot reminiscent of his time with the Illini.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Seems like the Bulls made a big mistake\u2026 But we already knew that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s nothing we didn\u2019t already know, but Illinois legend Ayo Dosunmu is a STAR. Dosunmu authored one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[255175,19804,1753,16950,11951,33320,355,213946,1756,99,48250],"class_list":{"0":"post-606947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-2026-nba-playoffs","9":"tag-ayo-dosunmu","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-minneapolis","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-mn","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nbae","16":"tag-nikola-jokic","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-target-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}